Gosh this is so interesting and relevant to a current project I am working on… The Practical State…It emerges where public servants and communities meet: not just in service delivery, but in shared authorship…It lives in the middle, between policy and practice, between centrally divined strategy and street-level reality, where trust is built, discretion is exercised, and legitimacy is earned - daily…really resonated with the relationship between disaster affected communities and recovery agencies.
I am doing some case studies of recovery governance based on recent recoveries, when we really want the ‘government’ participants to behave quite differently to ‘peacetime’ as part of recovery governance arrangements. Especially in this context no one ‘agent’ pulls all the levers and collaboration beyond the often platitudinous ‘norms’ of cooperation and coordination for effective recovery is a key attribute.
Also, the work by Mark Crosweller on compassionate leadership in disaster recovery is very relevant.
BTW: It was great to meet you Deb at the recent IOD event.
Gosh this is so interesting and relevant to a current project I am working on… The Practical State…It emerges where public servants and communities meet: not just in service delivery, but in shared authorship…It lives in the middle, between policy and practice, between centrally divined strategy and street-level reality, where trust is built, discretion is exercised, and legitimacy is earned - daily…really resonated with the relationship between disaster affected communities and recovery agencies.
I am doing some case studies of recovery governance based on recent recoveries, when we really want the ‘government’ participants to behave quite differently to ‘peacetime’ as part of recovery governance arrangements. Especially in this context no one ‘agent’ pulls all the levers and collaboration beyond the often platitudinous ‘norms’ of cooperation and coordination for effective recovery is a key attribute.
Also, the work by Mark Crosweller on compassionate leadership in disaster recovery is very relevant.
BTW: It was great to meet you Deb at the recent IOD event.
Lovely to hear from you. Wasn’t that a great event? One of the best IoD events I have been too. Listening to Mairekura Elizabeth was a treat.
Yes indeed she is a great inspiration in the face of ongoing prejudice by design and default yet retaining a practical wisdom. Go well.